When Daniel Weaver penned a letter from behind the Civil War's front lines to his friend Hannah Ditzler back in his hometown of Naperville , it described an encounter he and some of his buddies had just had with an African-American woman after she approached the Union Army soldiers to thank them for their presence.

When Daniel Weaver penned a letter from behind the Civil War's front lines to his friend Hannah Ditzler back in his hometown of Naperville , it described an encounter he and some of his buddies had just had with an African-American woman after she approached the Union Army soldiers to thank them for their presence.

A familiar Des Plaines building that for decades operated as a hotel and served as the community’s only hospital before the construction of Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, may soon be demolished.